Spaces and Lines

It’s been months since I did any thinking and reading on incidental research topics, but was given a bit of impetus by a group of noisy neighbours at 6:45 this morning. As I was awake, I decided to update my RSS reader and have a trawl through it.

There are three lines of thought here: amenity social spaces; mapping; information visualisation.

‘Perhaps most interesting about their work is the push to reframe the structure of a neighbourhood. Mitch spoke in some detail about future projects that will create new uses for alleys, houses, and vacant lots. In thinking about the possibilities for houses to do something other than house people, Mitch began to frame, in my mind, what’s really at stake in a neighbourhood like this.‘